[Bug 39030] New: wineserver --persistent doesn't start up system services

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39030

Bug ID: 39030
           Summary: wineserver --persistent doesn't start up system
                    services
           Product: Wine
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: x86
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
      Distribution: ---

wineserver --persistent doesn't start up system services

wineserver --persistent starts up the wineserver process.  However, it
does not start up winedevice.exe, plugplay.exe, services.exe and
explorer.exe.  Instead, those processes are dynamically spawned by the
first Wine process that needs them.  Personally, I would expect
wineserver --persistent or some other similar script to start up all
essential Wine services ahead of time.  As well, if wineserver did not
startup all services I would expect wineserver to spawn
winedevice.exe, plugplay.exe, services.exe and explorer.exe
dynamically and not just have the first wine process that requires
those spawn them.

This is a problem because dynamically spawning those processes
interacts annoyingly with the PR_SET_CHILD_SUBREAPER prctl.  Also,
such processes inherit settigns such as environment variables and
process priority.

[Bug 39030] wineserver --persistent doesn't start up system services

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39030

Austin English  changed:

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Ken Sharp  changed:

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          Component|-unknown                    |wineserver
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--- Comment #1 from Ken Sharp  ---
Confirming. It can affect anyone trying to script a background process to run
at different priorities. There are other ways around that of course.

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Mihai Todor  changed:

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[Bug 39030] wineserver --persistent doesn't start up system services

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

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--- Comment #2 from Ken Sharp  ---
Still the case in Wine 4.18 but is this a WONTFIX / as designed?

$ wineserver -p; wineboot

*may* provide the result you're looking for? It certainly does start up the
wineserver (obviously) and all background services, including ones you've
installed yourself.

Two commands instead of one but I'm sure this should work in most cases.

[Bug 39030] wineserver --persistent doesn't start up system services

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39030

--- Comment #3 from Ken Sharp  ---
No change in Wine 6.18

[Bug 39030] wineserver --persistent doesn't start up system services

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39030

--- Comment #4 from Ken Sharp  ---
No change in Wine 9.7